Your correspondent has just returned from a trip to Tsingtao, coming back by vay of Chefoo and the canal. The activity in building in the German port is immense, showing that the Germans—and also the Chinese, who are investing large sums in buildings there—have great faith in the future of Tsingtao, a faith which seems hound to be justified by the outcome, provided the Germans show sufficient iherality in their management the port and in the settling of tariffs on the new railroad. At present there seems to iderable complaint of the high argos on the railroad both for passengers—only third class carriages being run so far—and for freight.
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